Pushing The Boundaries

Since the President's budget proposal was released last week, the GOP response has been interesting to say the least.  More and more of them seem to think that after eight years of proving how incompetent Republicans are at running government and dumbing down the discourse to a series or 24 hour news cycles and permanent falsehoods, the public is ready for jettisoning our safety net completely as the sacred entitlement cow is ready to be led to the slaughter.  The latest cheerleader for getting rid of Medicare and Social Security?  Bachmanniac.

BACHMANN: Is the country too big to fail? No, the country can fail. We can, we’re not invincible. And we’re so close now to being at that point because the thing is, as Glenn Beck said last night, it is true. The $107 trillion that he put on the board. We’re $14 trillion in debt, but that doesn’t include the unfunded massive liabilities. That’s $107 trillion, and that’s for Social Security and Medicare and all the rest. You add up all those unfunded net liabilities, and all the traps that could go wrong we’re on the hook for, and what it means is what we have to do is a reorganization of all of that, Social Security and all. We have to do it simply because we can’t let the contract remain as they are because the older people are going to lose. So, what you have to do, is keep faith with the people that are already in the system, that don’t have any other options, we have to keep faith with them. But basically what we have to do is wean everybody else off. And wean everybody off because we have to take those unfunded net liabilities off our bank sheet, we can’t do it. So we just have to be straight with people. So basically, whoever our nominee is, is going to have to have a Glenn Beck chalkboard and explain to everybody this is the way it is.  

Republicans have heard you America! They too agree we should get that mean old Federal Government out of Medicare and Social Security for good.  The $107 trillion unfunded liability claim from Glennsanity?  Not true.

But she wants to get rid of it.  When Republicans say "balance the budget" they mean "destroy the government's ability to do anything but wage war."